Re: cron as root Revisited

From	Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: cron as root Revisited
Date	2015-08-26 21:44 +0000
Organization	Old Men With Beards
Message-ID	<d46q9sF4r7lU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2015-08-26, Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
I can set this script up as a cron job and it does what I
> want -- provided I'm logged on as root at the time cron tries should
> start it. This is true whether I'm using a Terminal window or not.
> However, if I've done a quick switch to another user (such as me)
> leaving root (System Administrator as it is known) logged in, the script
> does not execute properly.

Are you under the impression that a System Administrator and root are
the same?
>
> Charlie

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cron as root Revisited csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-08-26 01:02 -0700
  Re: cron as root Revisited Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-08-26 10:43 -0400
    Re: cron as root Revisited csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-08-27 00:33 -0700
      Re: cron as root Revisited Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-08-27 04:14 -0400
      Re: cron as root Revisited Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-08-27 08:02 -0700
        Re: cron as root Revisited JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-27 11:28 -0400
          Re: cron as root Revisited Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-08-27 15:03 -0400
            Re: cron as root Revisited csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-08-28 01:12 -0700
              Re: cron as root Revisited Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-08-28 10:35 -0400
                Re: cron as root Revisited Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-28 15:35 +0000
        Re: cron as root Revisited Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-27 18:14 +0000
  Re: cron as root Revisited Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 21:44 +0000
    Re: cron as root Revisited csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-08-27 00:33 -0700
  Re: cron as root Revisited csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2015-08-31 23:32 -0700

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